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��THE SPANISH CAVALIER.

��Composed by William D. Hendricksoit.

The " Spanish Cavalier" was composed by a youth of San Francisco who shipped as a cabin boy on board the flag ship of the Pacific Squadron, about 1375. The vessel lay sometime at Panama, where he deserted and enlisted in the Panama army as a drummer boy. When tired of this service he worked hi* way back to San Francisco, where he was arrested as a deserter from the United Slates Navy. He escaped punishment through the instrumentality of an old sweetheart, the daughter of a member of Congress. After bin release he recalled two airs which lie had heard while in the Panama army and recomposed them in honor of the young lady who had helped liiin out of his troubles. To his bitter dissapointment she refund to recognize lum afterwards, and he cast the songs aside as of no further value to him. Subsequently he sang one of them with piano accom- paniment in the presence of a San Francisco actress who at once appreciated it, and shortly afterwards it was produced in public and it may be said that allot the ]>eopleof San Francisco came to know it. Neither words nor music were printed until IwU, when a publisher paid him fifty dollars for the song. About six months afterward this publisher offered the '• Spanish Cavalier" to a music dealer foi twenty dollars, including copyright and all rights but the offer was declined. That same dealer lias since bought copies of the song to the value of hundreds of dollars.

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if I be slain.you may seek me in vain, Up - on the bat - tie - field you will find

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��Copyright, mdccclxxviii, by Geo. w. Hasam,

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